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Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homeés as fast as the papers are printed. -, N Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 No. 32,339. Entered as second post office, Washington, class matter D. C The WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION hening L/ WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1932—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. i U. S. HURRIES DEBT PARLEY PLANS AS NATIONS JOIN IN RELIEF PLEA; FRANCE MAKES ARMS PROPOSAL Fight Is Seen to Extending Moratorium PRESIDENT ASKS GOVERNOR HERE Calling of Special Congress Session Is Favored. By the Associated Press. Great Britain and France, each $4,000,000000 debtors of the United States, today sought re- lief from further payments pend- ing an international conference on world debt problems. Publication of their formal re- quests, made to a Government already on xecord against fur- ther reduction or cancellation, coincided with a telegram from President Hoover to President- elect Roosevelt, inviting his suc- cessor to a conference on the sub- ject—an action without exact precedent in all presidential his- tory. It brought also suggestions of immediate Congressional consid- eration. Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, of Montana, said that if “it becomes necessary to dispose of the matter at once a special ses- sion of Congress should be called.” Committee Meeting Urged. Representative Ragon, Democrat, of Arkansas, who drafted the declaration against further reductions which Con- gress attached to the Hoover one-year moratorium on intergovernmental debts, recommended an immediate meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee to consider the question. This. previous congressional declara- tion was stressed by President Hoover in his telegram to Roosevelt, dispatched from the train on which he is speeding back to the White House. (%14 chafige lmmm m‘g’wfll be greatly affected by the views of those mem- bers who recognize you as their leader,” the Chief Executive said. * * * “I am loathe to proceed with recommenda- tions to the Congress until I can have an opportunity fo confer with you Friends expected Roosevelt to accept the inviiation. Fight Predicted. Whatever President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt might agree on in connection with war debts, signs point to plenty of controversy in Congress. As the President sped homeward, and his successor prepared in Albany to re- ply to his invitation for a White House conference, returning members of Con- gress aired their views to newspaper men in Washington. Senator Fess, Republican, of Ohio, favored an international conference looking toward debt “adjustments,” but opposed undertaking negotiations aimed to bring about cancellation. “These loans rhust and will be paid. If the debtor countries default their payment the taxpayer of the United States will have to pay, as this country does not repudiate its obligations. * ¢ * “A concrete proposal in a definite agenda should be submitted as a basls and prerequisite for a conference.” Byrns Opposes Extension. Representative Byrns of Tennessee, one of the leading candidates for Speaker in the new Democratic House, expressed opposition to extension of the moratorium such as is sought by European powers. “I do not think that Congress, in view of its definite stand last year against reduction of the war debts will grant any reduction,” he said. “I certainly would oppose any con- sideration of the debt question by Con- gress unless it is to the interest of the American taxpayer.” Commenting on President Hoover's | invitation to Mr. Roosevelt to confer, Byrns said “it appears to me that the President is seeking to involve Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt in a situation brought about by the Republican ad- ministration.” He added, however, “if we are to have private conferences about the war debts we might as well have a special ses- sion of Congress and discuss the situa- tion in the open.” Rankin Denounced Cancellation. Representative Rankin _(Democrat), Mississippi, who fought the Hoover mora- torium in the House a year ago, today said, “President Hoover and his inter- | national banker advisers scem to trying to rush this matter, hoping to get a lame-duck Congress to betray the American people by canceling or reduc- | ing these war debts and unloading that burden onto the backs of the already overburdened taxpayers of America.” “I am unalterably opposed to cancel- ion of a single dollar,” Rankin said. “Practically every member of the House and Senate elected to the Seventy-third Congress is committed against any kind of cancellation. So Mr. Hoover wants " (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) ARRESTED IN SLAYING OF UNCLE AND AUNT Man Held at Tower, Minn., Report- ed to Have Leéft Couple's Home Recently. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD CITY, Ind, November 14.—Officers here were advised today that John Moore, 25, wanted for ques- tioning in the slaying of his uncle and sunt, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Moore, had been arrested at Tower, Minn. The bodies of the Moores were found in their farm home near Pennville last Saturday. Both had been shot. The reported to the Moores for a time. He was believed to have left the home re~en‘ly. ! | By the Assoclated Press. COLOGNE, Germany, November 14. —In an exhaustive discussion of French military organization and equipment, to be presented in a special issue tomor- row, the Koelnische Illustrierte Zeitung, a widely read weekly circulated in- ternationally and throughout Germany, reaches the conclusion that “before the gates of Germany there stands the best equipped army th the world, ready to march.” Statistics, graphs and maps are set forth in the issue, along with photo- graphs, banner-lined quotations from the sayings of French statesmen, and scientific analyses by German military experts. The purpose is to prove to the Ger- man reader that Jules Cambon, emi- nent French diplomat, correctly in- terpreted the French people in saying, “in the army lies the soul of France.” ‘The publishers of the weekly—the English ivalent of the title is the Cologne Illustrated Newspaper—assert 'REICH SEES FRANCE READY WITH 5,000,000 ARMED MEN Cologne Paper Says Paris Can Put 55 Divisions in Field Without [ General Mobilization. that much of the material they present never has been printed. Every declara- tion, they say, can be proved. Outstanding among the statements are these: 1. That within a week, and without special parliamentary authorization, France could put into action 46 in- fantry, five cavalry and four air divi- sions. 2. That the French military budget does not show what the nation is spending on armaments- -“France is the world’s champion when it comes to camouflaging her military expendi- tures.” 3. That the French fleet “has made tremendous, methodic progress, thanks to a long-ferm naval program which, though never sanctioned by the Cham- ber of Deputies, is being carried out tacitly year after year.” 4. That the French air fleet has a radius of activity extending “far be- yond Germany, the Channel and Eng- land, and beyond the Italian plains of the Po, including Turin and Milan.” 5. That Prench Army maneuvers in " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) EXPECT ROOSEVELT ATHOOVER PARLEY Governor Preparing Reply to President’s Debt Confer- ence Invitation. By the Assoclated Press. A EXECUTIVE MANSION, Albany, N. ¥, November 14.—President-elect Roosevelt today prepared a reply to President Hoover's invitation to a White House conference on the war debt sit- uation. It was belleved by those close to the New York Governor that he would ac- cept the invitation and suggest the conference be held on Monday on Tues- day of next week. Mr. Roosevelt's reply, the Governor's secretary stated. would not be com- pleted until late this afternoon. It will be released to morning newspapers. Recovering From Cold. Mr. Roosevelt, recovering from a slight cold which confined him to his room since last Friday. expects to re- sime his engagements tomorrow. All of his appointments for today as well as since last Friay were canceled. The announcement of receipt of Mr. Hoover’s invitation to Mr. Roosevelt to discuss the latest notes from England and France on ngm‘ the debt ques- tion was made informally. This course was assumed to have been taken by Mr. Roosevelt to allow preps- ration of the text and also to allow ample time for the reply to be in the hands of Mr. Hoover before it was made public at Albany. Roosevelt's Plans. President Hoover, in his telegram to Mr. Roosevelt, said that he understood “you are planning to come through ‘Washington some time during the latter part of next week, and I hope you will find it convenient to stop off long enough for me to advise with you.” Mr. Roosevelt's plans, made several days before the note situation arose, celled for him staying in Albany this week until Priday, when he was to go to New York. From New York he planned to proceed to his Hyde Park home for ‘Warm Springs, Ga., some time Monday. The Warm Springs trip, if made on the present schedule, would take him through Washington on Tuesday. ‘War Debt Platform. The Democratic platform carried a one-sentence reference to war debts, It read: “We oppose cancellation of the debts owing to the United States by | foreign nations.” On July 30 in an address on the plat- (Contirued on Page 5, Column 1.) . CREDIT EXTENDED $90,000,000 Loan to Germany Held Over Three Months. | BASEL, Switzerland, November 14 (#)—The Bank for International Set- tlements today extended for another | three months a credit of $80,000,000 to | Germny. |~ This is subject to the approval of the | central banks of France and England and of the American Federal Reserve. On December 12 the governing board will vote on a loan sought by Austria. the week end and then to start for| Foreign Nations Pay _ U. S. $2,627,580,897; Owe $11,598,501,461 By the Associated Press. Foreign nations have paid the United States $2,627,580,897 and still owe $11,598,501,461, plus $184,000,000 in interest postponed under the moratorium. Of the payments, $953,343,602 was received before the debts were funded and $1,674,237,294 since that agreement was nego- tiated. The total now due includes $62,000,000 in principal postponed under the moratorium. Under the funding agreement, great Britain owes $4,398,000,000 and has paid $202,000,000 in principal and $1,149,720,000 in interest. CABINET MEN BACK OF RODSEVELT BID Stimson and Mills Urged Hoover to Call in His Successor. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. President Hoover, following the ad- vice of his chief lieutenants, Secretary Henry L. Stimson and Secretary Ogden Mills, has invited the President-elect. Gov. Roosevelt, to come to Washington and consult with the cabinet regarding the question of the revision of war debts raised last week by the British and French governments. In quarters close to the President- elect it is believed that Mr. Roosevelt will accept Mr. Hoover’s invitation and will come to Washington in the course of this week. The cause of this action is the two notes received last week by the State Department from London and Paris, in which the British and the French governments have asked the United States Government, in two similar notes, which were made public by the State Department this morning, for the postponement of the payment of the annuity due on December 15, in order to enable the interested govern- ments to begin negotiations for a thor- ough revision of the war debts. Based on U. S. Action. The British and the French govern- ments base the claim for a revision ex- clusively on the actions of the Ameri- can government since June, 1931. Neither of the two countries claims that they are incapable of paying their debts, nor do they appear to ask for favors from the people of the United States. They merely recall the actions of Presi- dent Hoover, since the proclamations of the intergovernmental debt holiday and substantiate their claims on the fact that they had accepted the proposals of the President as a basis for the re- adjustment of all the war debts. After reminding the American Gov- ernment that the President had pro- posed a one-year suspension of the in- | tergovernmental debts “in order to re- | lieve the pressure of the difficulties re- sulting from the fall in prices and lack of confidence in economic and political stability,” the British note says: “The hopes which were early raised by the President's initiative have unfortunately (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) FOR CONGRESS |House Appropriations Ch: Special Session By the Assoclated Press. Urging speedy action on the annual | supply bills, Chairman Byrns of the House Appropriations Committee today advocated that Congress give up its Christmas holidays and “stay on the job to avert necessity for a special session early in the new administration.” The Roosevelt administration should have several months to become sc- quainted with the situation in Washing- ton before a special session is called, he said. Acoorclingly he expressed hope that the riation bills could be gotten way within a few weeks after the convening of the December session, which expires March 4, |BYRNS WOULD GIVE UP HOLIDAYS TO FINISH TASKS airman Wants to Prevent After March 4. Bymns also sald he saw “no reason | why a bill to legalize beer should not be | voted on at the short sesion.” He expressed the bellef that the House at least would pass a beer bill, | but said he did not know the strength | of the beer advocates: in the Senate. “It is necessary to keep up the cam- aign for economy,” the Tennessee mocrat said. "nkx‘l:lw':) lntel:lflnn to | apply the pruning e to each appro- priation bill so far as possible.” | It was learned that the Budget Bu- | reau itself has reduced some of its esti- mates under the present fiscal year, particularly in construction activities. Estimates for the ’num and Post Office Departments are lerstood to have been reduced by than $1,- Neutrality Ban for Nations Sought STANDING ARMY END ALSO ASKED Aggressor May Be Redefined by New Pact. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 14.—The high statesmen of France completed the final details of a three-point armament plan today and one of them pronounced the suggestion a great hope for the World Dis- armament Conference, whose fail- ure would ultimately mean “a race toward war.” “A Plan for Organization of Peace” was ready to send to Ge- neva for official presentation to the disarmament conference. It represents the French idea of the problem and provides for treaties of consultation, security and arms equality. “This plan indicates for the first time, clearly and loyally be- fore the worla, what we are ready to do,” said Joseph Paul-Boncour, minister of war and French dele- gate to the disarmament confer- ence. Offers Great Hope. “The plan brings great hope to the disarmament conference, whose failure would be a signal for a re-armament race which sooner or later would be & race toward war,” he concluded. Premier Edouard Herriot and mem- bers of the French delegation spent most of last evening putting the final touches on the plan. Advance notice of the plan through disclosures to the Radical-Socialist party congress, to the Geneva Confer- ence Committee and to the press seemed to present the idea like this: 1. A general consultative pact in which the nations of the world would rencunce the right of neutrality in the event of war. This would involve the United States as far as she has previ- ously committed herself. 2. A general convention for the re- duction of armaments. This probably would stress deferi¥ive armaments as opposed to powerful attack weapons. Here, too, might be a new definition of an aggressor nation from the French viewpoint. May Mean Equality. 3. A regional European pact providing for a general staff of Europe and armies to be placed at the disposal of a nation made the victim of aggression. This would envisage a conscript system for European armies abolishing profes- sional armies, such as the German Reichswehr. This might also give Ger- many a basis for her claim to equality in armaments. Among the many suggestions made as to the various provisions of these three treaties have en that nations will renounce their rights to neutrality in the event of war; that international control of armies would be set up, with rights of investigation; and that mem- bers of the League specifically agree to fulfillment of article 16 regarding contributions of arms for a victim of aggression. An official summary of the plan enunciates the policy of discontinuing economic ard financial relations with an aggressor nation. Economic Weapon. The summary, made public today, says that based on the declarations of Secretary of State Stimson that armed conflict interests all signatories to the Briand-Kellogg pact, who could not adopt neutraity toward sn aggressor, chapter 1 has for its object to have this principle accepted by all powers. In case of violation of the pact, the summary continues, the powers should discontinue their economic and finan- cial relations with an aggressor. Joseph Paul-Boncour recently said in Geneva that the French plan repre- sents amplification. perfection and or- ganization of the principle of the Hoover suggestion for a general one- third cut in armaments, according to the ideas ruling Prench policy. The plan was up before the Council of Ministers today, called together by President Albert Lebrun. The docu- ment will be officially transmitted to Geneva for presentation by a member of the French delegation, Rene Massigli. EXPECTED IN GENEVA TODAY. New French Plan Probably to Be Made Public at Bureau Session. GENEVA, November 14 (#).—The text ( of the new Prench plan for disarmament | was expected to be distributed in Ge- neva late today. ‘The Conference Bureau, or_Steering Committee, assembled for a 3:30 p.m. session, during or after which the plan | would become public. Sir John Simon, the British delegate, was ready to present a British state-, ment on the French suggestion, prob- ably tomorrow. It was understood he had no definite British disarmament plan, but rather a commentary on the French idea. A date for a meeting of the general commission to consider the French plan has not been decided upon. RUTH ELDER SUES CAMP Woman Flyer in Reno Action Against Third Husband. RENO, Nev., November 14 (#).—Ruth Elder, noted woman fiyer, filed suit here today for a divorce from her third The detailea document entitled | ar * Saturday’s Circulation, 114,935 Sunday’s Circulation, 127,848 *kk (P Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. CAMPAIGN CosT, { b JIR HOOVER PREPARES FORDEBT QUESTION President Ready to Act Alone, but Hopes for Conference With Successor. By the Associated Press. ON BOARD THE PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL EN ROUTE TO WASHING- TON, November 14.—President Hoover hurried eastward today toward what may prove an historic conference be- tween himself and President-elect Roosevelt over debt questions of mo- ment to the world. Informed virtually all debtor nations | kng of the United States intended to seek suspension of payments due December 15, President Hoover yesterday made public a lengthy telegram he sent to the New York Governor at Albany in- viting him to visit! the White House 'BECOMES HUGE Destruction of Santa By the Associated Press. CAMAGUEY, Cuba, November 14.— The town of Santa Cruz Del Sur be- came a gigantic funeral pyre today on the order of military authorities. The destruction of wind and water that also took the lives of probably 2,500 Cubans last week was thus completed for the sake of sanitation. Exact Number Unknown. This action made it probable that the exact number of lives taken by the hur- ricane of last Wednesday will never be OWn. Meanwhile, President Gerardo Ma- chado was ready to leave the capital to inspect tt:]e hurrui-ne-wm I-PEI and governmental agencies sped up the task of relieolc uund rehabilitation. this week to seek a common basis of | wide action extending into the next adminis- tration. Up until early this morning the Chiet Executive had not received an accept- ance of his invitation, but nevertheless he laid plans for such a parley shortly after his return to the Executive Man- sion Wednesday. It was learned au- thoritatively he has various definite steps in mind for dealing with the situ- ation as it touches individual nations, but desires a co-operative conference Illmn‘me President-elect before taking ac Asks Personal Conference. “I am prepared,” he wired to Roose- velt, “to deal with the subject as far as it lies in the power of the Executive, but it must be our common wish to deal with this question in a constructive fashion for the common good of the country. 3 “I am loathe to proceed with rec- ommendations to the Congress until I can have an opportunity to confer with you personally at some convenient date in the near future.” Mr. Hoover spoke also of the world economic conference and the arms con- ference efforts which would continue on into the Roosevelt administration upon which “an interchange of views would be in the public interest.” In his telegram Mr. Hoover reiterated his debts stand as opposed to “cancel- lation in any form,” but said “We should be receptive to proposals from our debtors for tangible compensation in other forms than in direct payment in expansion of markets for the products of our labor and our farms.” Limited by Congress. “If negotiations are to be undertaken as requested by these governments,” he said, “protracted and detailed discus- sions would be necessary which could not be concluded during my adminis- tration. Any negotiations of this ques- tion on the basis of the requests of these governments is limited by the resolution of the Congress. “And if there is to be any change in the ‘attitude of the Congress, it will be greatly affected by the views of those (Continued on Pag Column 1.) VON BERNSTORFF IS 70 Former German Envoy to U. S. Now in Retirement. MUNICH, Bavaria, November 14 (#).— Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the United States when that country entered the war in 1917, reached his 70th birthday anniversary today. He is spending his declining years on his beautiful estate which overlooks Lake Starnberg, half an hour from here, leading the life of a country squire. HOLD ECONOMIC PARLEY Mussolini Opens Convention of Leading Intellectuals of Europe. ROME, November 14 (4).—A number of the leading intellectuals of Europe gathered here today for a meeting un- der the auspices of the Royal Academy of Italy to consider the continent’s economic and social ailments. Premier Mussolini, opening the con- vention, said he was sure that these thinkers will be able to suggest solu- tions to the world’s men of action. Tanker Reported Safe. DETROIT, November 14 (P .—The Sunny Service Ol Co. reported that the German tanker Grete Glad arrived here at 4 am. today, and cleared a few hours later, for Montreal The tanker was at first Colborne, husband, Walter , motion picture producer and son of late foot ball xwmumm- lwvdmuwbhgpon Ontario, officials who said she had been for 24 hours after clearing Welland Canal. Radio Programs on Page C-3 6,000 pounds of lard and 20,000 sacks of beans and other rations for tempo- CHEST . ADMINISTRATION CUBAN TOWN WRECKED BY FUNERAL P Cruz Del Sur, Which Took 2,500 Cuban Lives, Completed for Sanitation Sake. rary relief of the thousands of home- less in Camaguey Province. Camaguey City, where more than 1,000 injured refugees are concentrated, mostly from Santa Cruz, today effected repairs on the aqueduct, assuring water supply. The military authorities ruled the city and vaccination to avert epi- demics was compulsory. American Woman Perished. It was learned today that Mrs. W. S. Rogers of Gloria, Camaguey, the prin- cipal American colony in the province, was killed and her husband and by State Department to proceed to Santa Cruz on an inspection . with- gasoline furnished government. Soldiers and grave diggers were into service to reduce the many bodies still lay, to ashes. U. 5. URGED T0 BUY WATERWAY LANDS New York Association Head Tells Senators Plan Would Insure Benefit. - By the Associated Press. The proposal that the United States should purchase all lands in Canada south of the St. Lawrence River be- tween the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean in the event of a St. Lawrence waterway treaty was made today by Peter G. Ten Eyck, president of the New York State Waterways Association. Testifying before a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, in opposition to ratification of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep waterway treaty, Ten Eyck said the acquisition of such lands would be necessary to insure the United States the same benefit that Canada would derive from the waterway development. “This is the sort of a treaty that should be negotiated before the present told the subcomm:tte; S T R Course of Boundary. ‘The International boundary follows the St. Lawrence from Lake Ontario to & point in Northern New York. There the river departs from the United States border and flows more than 1,000 miles Northeastward toward the Gulf of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic. The territory Ten Eyck referred to embraces New Brunswick, Nova Scotia | and part of Southern Quebec, Ten Eyck urged rejection of the waterway treaty, asserting that the project over a 50-year period will cost the United States and Canada $3,000,- HOOKWORN'S FOE RETURNS T0 FRAY Dr. C. W. Stiles Sets Out to|¢ Disprove Rockefeller Foun- dation’s Report. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. One of the world's greatest disease fighters of a past generation has emerged angrily from the peace of his Washington laboratory and is riding’ forth alone to do battle with a dragon which he believes is devouring & people. Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, who re- tired from the United States Public Health Service several years ago, has thrown down the gauntlet both to the insidious hookworm of the Southern mountains and farm lands and to the powerful Rockefeller Foundation in the interest, he says, of many thousands of blighted children who seem to have been abandoned to form a meal for the dragon. Dr. Stilez told the Biological Society of Washington about it last night. His name is about as intimately associated with hookworm as that of Walter Reed with yellow fever or Koch with tuber- culosis. It was about a quarter of a century ago that his great fight was waged against this parasite, which lit- erally was sapping the vitality and dooming to early graves millions of American children and which, as an economic factor, often is given the major role in the backwardness of the Southeastern States after the Civil War. He showed the way to cure the indi- vidual and to conquer the parasite. But for years Dr. Stiles has been retired from the din of the battle, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Washington experienced below frees- ing weather last night for the first time CAPITAL’S FIRST FREEZE DRIV ES-X | THRONGS OF JOBLESS TO MISSIONS put out in excess of 2,700 relief Demands for Winter clothing were exceptionally heavy, it was report- ed, and severely diminished the store of these supplies now on hand in the mis- At’ the Central 613 Union © ‘strect: 600 meals ang 210 beds wers to reports. zations meals. 0.3 PLEDGED IREADYRESPNSE INGHEST CANPHEN Ambassador Mellon Heads List With Subscription of $35,000. TWO FIRMS ARE ALREADY IN 100 PER CENT CLASS Slogan of “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread” Carried to Four Corners. Campaign workers for the Community Chest had lopped 29 days off the wel- fare relief calendar for next year with a total of $190,403.50 subscribed by 2,967 persons, it was reported at the first meeting of all teams, in the Wil lard Hotel this afternoon. This figure represented 8 per cent, approximately, of the total of $2,419,- 787 set as the Chest's goal for 1933. This figure leaves 336 days, with the quota of $6,620 as the daily allotment for giving Washington'’s unfortunate their dally bread yet to be solicited. The largest single subscription ree ported today was $35,000 subscribed by Andrew W. Mellon, Ambassador to Eng- by a1t s Teporied by Clarenes At y , it was re by gills unit, “The spectal gifts unit. e ported a total of $156,974.75 from subscribers. The next largest reported was from the group tion unit with $19,319.10, 7.3 per cent of its . The report, made Lloyd B. Wilson, added that two firms 50 far have subscribed 100 per cent to the Chest, Boss & Phelps and the Bank - of Commerce & Savings. Metropolitan Unit Gets, $11,609. The Me unit, headed H. L. Rust, Teported 387 subscrip- tions for a total of $11,609.25. The governmental unit, headed by Thomas E. Clm‘gbell. subscriptions of $5,001.40. bell that the 109 anf 120, individual - By by , _under which wi grave and vital Mr. Noyes introduced Gann, sister of Vice President Curtis. Mrs. Gann spoke briefly, say~ e “I am here because I am so intense- Confident of Success. E. C. Graham, president of the emphasized that Washington % most fertile fleld in the country for wel- fare and relief fund solicitation. “We have,” he said, “more salaried people in ‘Washington and larger salaries, with an annual pay roll of $150,000,000, a con- dition that is ncwhere equalled. Every group must raise its quota. No group must fail. The goal set is $2,419,787, but the actual goal is to raise sufficient funds to meet the needs of Washing- ton. I am confident that we will suc- ceed. It is the most noble cause ever undertaken by man. The favorable con- %ugoml outnumber the unfavcrable ones ‘The program of the meeting was broadcast over Station WJSV of the Columbia System and the reports and talks were interspersed with selections by the Bernheimer Trio. More than 1,600 members of the Met- ropolitan Unit, under the leadership of H. L. Rust, jr, were making a to-house canvass of the city: the Group Solicitation Unit, under Lloyd B. Wil- son, was soliciting the business r,roups; the Special Gifts Unit was faci's the task of seeing every person in Y7arh- ington who can give $500 or mor.. he school children were being given tueir opportunity to serve through the Schools Unit, headed by mond and C. C. Glover, jr, and more (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) | Weather to Be Warmer Tomorrow, Followed by Another | HOON SW Cold Snap Wednesday, Forecast Says. TYPHOON SWEEPING SEA COAST OF JAPAN Heavy Loss of Life Expected—Com- munications Broken—Landslide Buries 30 Houses. By the Associated Press. was lects of TOKIO (Tuesday), November 15.—